During the summer, dinner usually includes vegetables picked fresh from our garden.

Are you a word wiz?

At the root of "dinner" is a word that is related to a different meal. Which other meal do you think that is?

A. breakfast

B. lunch

C. brunch

D. supper

Believe it or not, the roots of "dinner" are in breakfast. That is, an ancestor of "dinner" is a Latin word meaning about the same thing as "breakfast." We trace "dinner" to a word in Anglo-French (the French language used in medieval England). That word is "disner" and it means "to dine" or "to have a meal." "Disner" itself probably comes from the Latin word "disjejunare" which means "to break one's fast." Breaking one's fast, of course, is what "breakfast" means. "Disjejunare" comes from the Latin words "dis-," meaning "do the opposite of," and "jejunare," meaning "to fast" or "to eat nothing."